✨ Proclamations and Notifications
OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
W. CARGILL, Superintendent.
Vol. III.] THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1856. [No. 42.
Superintendent's Office, Dunedin, 15th August 1856.
THE Executive Council, on behalf of His Honor the Superintendent, directs the re-publication of the following Proclamations and Notifications from the "New Zealand Government Gazette" of the respective dates aftermentioned.
By command,
John Logan,
Clerk to Superintendent.
(From Gazette of 27th May 1856.)
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c.
WHEREAS it is expedient that that portion of the Province of Otago which comprises the lands known as Otakou, Kaikorai, Taieri, Mataau, and Te Karoro, and which piece or parcel of land is bounded on the north by the sea coast, from a point at Purehurehu, half a mile distant from the western head of the harbour of Otago to Otupa, and thence to Poatiri; on the east by the sea shore from Poatiri aforesaid to Tokata; on the south and south-west by the ridge of hills known as Taukohe to Pohuaroa; on the west by a line running along the summit of the Kai-hiku range, then by a right line drawn from the northern extremity of the said line along the summit of the Kai-hiku range known as Munga Atua, thence by a line running north-north-easterly along the summit of the said Munga Atua range to Waikari, thence by a line running along the summit of the hills, to the mountain known as Mihiwaka, and thence by a line along the summit of the hills, till it joins the said northern boundary at Purehurehu, should be divided into Hundreds.
Now therefore I, the Governor, do hereby proclaim and declare that the same be divided into eight Hundreds to be called respectively the hundred of Dunedin, the Hundred of East Taieri, the Hundred of West Taieri, the Hundred of Waihola, the Hundred of South Tokomairiro, the Hundred of North Tokomairiro, the Hundred of East Clutha, and the Hundred of West Clutha, the boundaries whereof respectively are hereinafter particularly described.
Description of the boundaries of the Hundred of "Dunedin":
On the North-west by a right line from the North Trigonometrical Station Blueskin Bay, to the Trigonometrical Station on Double Hill, thence by a right line to the Trigonometrical Station on Swampy Hill, thence by a right line to the Trigonometrical Station on Flagstaff Hill, Wakari, thence by a right line to North-west corner of Suburban Section No. 41, Wakari District.
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1856, No 42
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🏛️ Re-publication of Proclamations and Notifications
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration15 August 1856
Proclamations, Notifications, Otago, Land Division
- W. Cargill, Superintendent
- John Logan, Clerk to Superintendent
🗺️ Division of Otago Land into Hundreds
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey27 May 1856
Land Division, Hundreds, Otago, Dunedin, East Taieri, West Taieri, Waihola, South Tokomairiro, North Tokomairiro, East Clutha, West Clutha
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Governor and Commander-in-Chief